Page 33 of Endgame

“Don’t start your shit, this is about them, not us,” Corv says, while pinning Cody with a stern look that she matches with one of her own.

“Oh, I’m so sorry, Corvin. How dare I say anything that you don’t want to hear. I mean, silly me for thinking that because Darius can admit to his best friend that he loves his sister, that you might be man enough to tell me how you fucking feel!” She pushes back from the table and stands. Corv follows her lead. “You can fuck me but you can’t commit to me? You are fucking pathetic—”

“Fuck off with your shit, Cody!” Corvin yells.

“Corvin!” Leah reprimands her brother but he ignores it.

“You want me to stand here and say three fucking words just to make you feel better?” Tears gather in Cody’s eyes but she refuses to let them fall at Corv’s harsh tone. Cody doesn’t know that he can’t commit because Lana fucked him over so badly that he can’t trust a female anymore. He loved Lana in his own Corvin type of way but that bitch screwed with his head, making him think her cheating on him was his fault. “I can’t give you what you want, Cody. I never lied to you. I told you from the start that this could never be more than a bit of fun. You’re the one that went and caught feelings when I fucking told you not to!” I can see it in his face, Corv hates that he’s hurting her but he isn’t wrong. He told Cody he could never give her what she wanted and she agreed to his terms.

“You’re right, how stupid of me to think that because we practically live together, spend every free minute we have together and act like a couple that you would be willing to give us a title.” The hurt in her voice has me feeling bad for her.

“They don’t have a fucking title!” Corvin shouts while pointing toward Val and me. I glare at the fucker.

“Fuck you, she’s my girl and we have a fucking kid. It’s pretty obvious we’re together!” I snap. Val pulls back from her hiding place and stares down at me with a small smile on her beautiful face.

“We’re together, huh?”

“Fuck yeah, we are,” I growl possessively.

“What’s that?” All our focus shifts to Katie to see her pointing to something. Val shifts off my lap and bends over the table to grab something from the back of one of the pictures. She holds up the tiniest thumb drive I have ever seen as she turns to face me. I reach for it but Katie’s words have me pausing. “Give it to me, if it’s encrypted and has a reversed IP they could track it and hack into the house security system and watch us from the inside.” Val eyes widen as she turns and chucks the drive to Katie. “Crue, can you grab my laptop please.” He nods and rushes to do as she asks. Val excuses herself to check on Dawson while we wait for Crue to come back. The tension between Cody and Corvin is fucking thick, but right now I don’t give a shit about their relationship. I just care about finding this fucker and teaching him a lesson for fucking with my family.

“Uh, not to state the obvious but we all have practice tonight and Katie baby has dance.” I groan, I forgot about that. We can’t miss practice or coach will fucking kills us. He was fucking cheering when I told him I would no longer be going to Alaska. If we all go tonight that means it will leave Cody, Leah and Val at home alone with Dawson. “Sorry, but I thought I’d just throw that out there,” Saint tacks on.

Crue and Val both enter the room at the same. He hands Katie her laptop as we all huddle around her to peer over her shoulder to watch her screen. She plugs the drive-in and immediately starts typing so fucking fast I begin to think she is typing bullshit just to try look cool… until all these windows begin to pop up over the screen.

“What’s happening?” Val asks.

“The drive is bugged, they clearly underestimated who you are friends with if they thought this bullshit wouldn’t get detected.” Val gasps, even in the midst of a fucked up situation, my girl manages to see the good. She’s more shocked that Katie called her a friend. Katie continues to type away for a couple more minutes before she brings up a new window that is filled with pictures. She taps on the first one and it’s a picture of Val and Dawson at the park as she pushes him on a swing, the next is of Val buying a coffee from the cart in the quad. The next one has me stiffening, it’s of Val and me in the kitchen ofthishouse, with my face buried in the crook of her neck. I remember that day, it was the day I got a hair sample from her. Katie clicks to the next one and that one has my rage cresting to new heights. It’s a picture of Darius, Saint and me out front as we toss a ball around, except all three of our faces are blacked out and up the top in thick bold letters it says,

HE IS MY SON.

Valance whimpers and covers her mouth as she shakes her head. Katie clicks to the last picture and before I know what the fuck I’m doing I’m reaching over Katie’s shoulder and slamming the lid of her computer shut. No one says a fucking word as we all stand here silently, my mind is fucking reeling!

“H-how did they get that picture?” Val chokes out. I turn to my girl and grit my teeth hating the look of fear in her eyes. I close my own eyes and try to calm myself, the last picture was of Valance in the shower at her apartment. That wasn’t the worst part, it was the black-gloved hand in the shot with a creamy looking substance covering it, I’ll give you one guess what the fucking substance was!

“I’m not being a dick right now, but I think after seeing the cum on the sick fucks hand it’s safe to assume that whoever this is,isa guy.” Crue’s right, we need to face the fact that Val is being stalked by some sick fuck.

“I have a feeling that whoever this guy is, that he is pissed off,” Cody adds.

“Why?” I ask her. She meets my state with a pitying look.

“From what Val has told us about this sick fuck, he has never done anything this bold or anything past leaving a note and a flower until… she reconnected with you.”

“What the fuck does that have to do with anything?” Corvin demands, she rolls her eyes and focuses on him as she answers.

“Him seeing Val with Beckett who is Dawson’s father, and anyone with fucking eyes can see those two are in love with each other, would spike his jealousy and force him to up his game or risk losing… Val and Dawson to Beck.” I hate to fucking admit it but Cody has a point.

“Val, babe, what did the other letters say, the ones before you saw Beck again?” Saint asks. Val scrunches her face as she tries to think back.

“Not much. He would tell me that I looked beautiful, or that he saw Dawson do something and was proud. He would write poems and things like that but nothing—”

Leah cuts Val off. “Wait, who knows Beck is Dawson’s father?”

“Why?” Darius asks.

“If Val had no idea that Becky was even here at CHU, then that means whoever is doing this has to know about Val and Beck’s past. I’ve seen Dawson numerous times on Facetime and never once thought he was Beck’s until at the cabin, so whoever this is knows about Beck.”

Valance

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